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Tragedy and the Cross: The Role of Suffering in Michael D. O’Brien’s Novels
From O’Brien’s perspective, Christian civilization and the Church are failing in critical ways, inducing a sense of collective kenosis, and the temptation to social despair. The raw pain of collective suffering puts supernatural hope to the test.